Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture24 Juli 2025

[UNLOCKED] LITM Extra - Heavy Metal Falling from the Sky pt.1

In response to the death of the Ozzy Osborne this week, we've unlocked this patrons episode from last year about heavy metal, Black Sabbath and the Prince of Darkness himself. If you like this you can hear a lot more like it by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.

In this episode Jeremy raises a devil’s horn salute to the gods and demons of heavy metal. He explores the etymology of the genre term, excavating its shared roots with acid rock, and explaining how heavy metal compliments our story here on LITM. With reference to Easy Rider and the misconceived ‘end of the ‘60s’, we hear about how biker culture, the legacy of the blues and changing regimes of accumulation contributed to the anguished intensity expressed in the music of Led Zeppelin, King Crimson and Iron Butterfly.

Jeremy also explores noise, feedback and distortion as the new aesthetic tools of metal, questions why people in the late 60s would want to explore occult and black magic ideas, and finishes with a deep dive on Black Sabbath, asking: was heavy metal an expression of the blues for white guys who’s dad’s worked in the car factories of Birmingham?

Books and Films:

Easy Rider
Robert Walser - Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

Tracklist:

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

The Who - My Generation (Live 1968)

Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Iron Butterfly - Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(184)

Astral Traveling: Spiritual Jazz pt.1

Today we’re taking it back to the early 70s as we begin a mini-series on spiritual jazz. Psychedelic, cosmic, astral: all words associated with a set of releases somewhat maligned at the time but now ...

24 Sep 1h 3min

LITM Extra - Boy George, Gaza, and 'We Will Dance Again' [excerpt]

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only show. To hear the full thing, plus dozens more like it, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to sign up.In this episode Tim responds to Boy George’s recent musical o...

10 Sep 3min

Notting Hill Carnival

Love is the Message returns from our summer break just in time for the Bank Holiday Weekend, which in London means one thing: Carnival. In this episode Jeremy and Tim cover the history of Notting Hill...

27 Aug 1h 42min

Corrie on Acid: The Fall with David Wilkinson

We at LITM are still on our summer break, but while we’re away we wanted to share this interview on that most Northern of subjects, Mark E Smith of The Fall. Joining Jeremy for this discussion is Dr D...

6 Aug 1h 31min

Adventures Close to Home: Post Punk 1979 pt.2

It's just Jem this week, mopping up the last suds of our post punk mini-series with a series of British bands who ripped it up and started again. We spend time with The Slits fantastic dub punk debut ...

16 Juli 56min

LITM Extra - Kiss Me Again: Arthur Russell pt.6 [excerpt]

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full show, and dozens more like it, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to join.We made it: what started as a ten-minute conversation and becam...

2 Juli 16min

Disorder? Post Punk 1979 pt.1

We’ve finally made it - the pivotal Post Punk year of 1979. Well, sort of. It wouldn’t be LITM without a little extra detail, so Jeremy and Tim cue up our arrival with a couple of tracks from ’78 for ...

18 Juni 1h 31min

LITM Extra - The Flying Hearts: Arthur Russell pt.5 [excerpt]

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full thing, plus dozens more like it, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.We continue our mini-series on Arthur Russell by turning to his mid-7...

4 Juni 12min